Accident at the Mill, Great Haywood
This postcard view shows the fire brigade and local people draining the mill pond by using steam powered fire engines to lower the level of the water. In the foreground men are working Shugborough Hall's ...
Ambulances, Heath House Auxiliary Hospital, Tean
An ambulance marked 'American Ambulance - Great Britain' on the passenger door with auxiliaries and Army personnel, pictured on the drive outside Heath House, near Tean during a voluntary blood donation ...
BBC Midlands Today visits RAF Mountain Rescue Team at RAF Stafford
The BBC Midlands Today Team with presenter Kay Alexander (Kay is in the centre of the photograph, under the Mountain Rescue sign) are pictured with the RAF Mountain Rescue Team at their base at RAF Stafford. ...
Burslem Fire Brigade
This is an extract from a feature film made in Burslem in the Potteries in the summer of 1918, and shown in September. It shows the turn-out of the Burslem Fire Brigade – a typical action scene in early ...
Burton-upon-Trent Bridge and Town: sepia drawing
'Burton Bridge from the Staffordshire side of the River Trent.' View from the town side of the bridge, showing about twenty-five arches and a large house.'T.P.W.,' [Thomas Peploe Wood].
Cheadle Fire Brigade
Cheadle Fire Brigade outside the Town Hall, Cheadle.
The Town Hall was built in 1894 and also included a library. It was later the home of the Osborne Cinema. Although the facade remains the rear of ...
Fire Brigade at Tamworth Castle
Tamworth Volunteer Fire Brigade on parade outside Tamworth Castle. They are seen with their Merryweather steam fire engine and extending ladder cart.
Fire Brigade, Lichfield Street, Tamworth
Fire Engine 'Catherine' with Crew, Stafford Fire Brigade
This photograph shows Stafford Fire Brigade with the motor fire engine named 'Catherine', possibly Stafford's first, manufactured by Leyland. Alfred Ernest Haywood, later Chief Officer, is at the wheel. ...
Fire Engine with Crew, Stafford Fire Brigade
Chief Fire Officer, Captain Alfred Ernest Haywood, is seated at the front of a fire engine, with his son Ernest driving beside him. The family dog, and probably the Brigade mascot, 'Old Don' can be seen ...
Horse drawn ambulance, Chatterley Whitfield
The horse-drawn ambulance seen here was purchased in 1913 and remained in service at Chatterley Whitfield Colliery until about 1930 when a motor ambulance replaced it.
Injured miners were taken to ...
Leyland fire engine, Stafford
This fire engine is a Leyland FT4A Pump Escape, registration JRE 294. It was delivered to the Stafford Borough Fire Brigade in December 1939 and was christened "Eveline” after the Mayoress, Councillor ...
Leyland fire engine, Stafford
Stafford fire engine and firemen at the christening of the fire engine "Eveline". This fire engine is a Leyland FT4A Pump Escape, registration JRE 294. It was delivered to the Stafford Borough Fire Brigade ...
Police Vehicles, Stafford
Two police vehicles in the yard of the police barracks on Friar's Terrace, Forebridge.
This photograph was taken during the General Strike of 1926.
The officers posing with the vehicles are:P.C. Burton ...
Police Vehicles, Stafford
Police vans and a motor bike with sidecar in the yard of the police barracks at Friar's Terrace, Forebridge.
The officers posing with the vehicles are :- Left to right: Inspector Betts, P.C. Burton, ...
Red Cross Nurses on practice exercise, Uttoxeter
Red Cross Nurses carry a 'patient' into the Elkes' ambulance outside a heavily sandbagged building during a training exercise.
Shaw's Removal Van, Uttoxeter
An Armstrong Siddeley belonging to Shaw's Removals of Uttoxeter. Originally a car, like many cars during World War II it was converted into an ambulance. It never saw active service so the bodywork was ...